Friends,
I received this heartwarming message from a cataloger this morning, who
writes:
"So, I had an Arabic name to enter into a record as part of a note, and
I wasn't confident about the diacritics. So, I look in the authority
file to temporarily download it, copy the form of the name, and then
move on. Couldn't find the name in OCLC. Look in Wikipedia under his
common name - bingo. Even better, Wikipedia has a link to VIAF, double
bingo! With the authorized form from VIAF, I could readily find the
record in OCLC (I was tempted to copy the name form directly from VIAF,
but didn't want to push my luck.) The miracles of an interconnected
bibliographic dataverse!"
I asked if I could share with the Wikipedia community, and he added:
"By all means! The name in question was Aziz Ali al-Misri. The
corresponding Wikipedia article is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Aziz_'Ali_al-Misri
Thank you for your efforts! It made my work in my catalog possible!!"
The Wikipedia link was added by the VIAFbot, written by Max Klein,
Andrew Gray and others.
Huzzah! Let's hear it for connections!
Merrilee
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
777 Mariners Island Blvd Suite 550
San Mateo, CA 94404 USA
+1-650-287-2136
Merrilee blogs at hangingtogether.org <http://hangingtogether.org/>
Follow me on Twitter @merrileeiam
Short book that may be of interest to some of us.
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00452ED1V01Y201210WBE003
[This book is part of a series of 'lectures' designed to give an
introduction to a topic, so each chapter describes what it is they are
talking about, which is helpful. I took a quick look at it and it
seems like fairly detailed library science/metadata material, but not
excessively technical in the programming sense].
-- phoebe
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Did he read the information at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editathon ?
He could use the talk page at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
He could subscribe to <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org> if he needs more
advice and moral support:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Subject: [cultural-partners] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Jamaican editathon
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All,
We've had an email from a gentleman at an educational institution in
Jamaica, who'd like to run an editathon. He's contacted Wikimedia UK as a
starting point, presumably because of the shared history: but we can't do a
great deal more than send him some booklets, etc, by post. He's simply too
far away! Are there any individuals or chapters (or the WMF) based nearby
who could help?
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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Hello All,
Happy open access week, to celebrate I created the Open Access Wikipedia
Challenge on P2PU [1]. The challenge is to embed media that was
harvested from Open Access journals in Wikipedia, and I created a
special edition barnstar for completing it [2]. This challenge is
totally friendly to newbies and librarians as it includes over 1 hour of
6 screencast tutorial videos that explain every detail right from the
account creation, to transclusion, and each module has waypoint
challenges.
Happy Open Access Week,
[1] https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Open_Access_Wikipedia_Challenge_Ba
rnstar
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023
Hi folks,
Do we have a comprehensive list somewhere of all of the edit-a-thons
that are happening for Open Access week [22-26 Oct] and/or Ada
Lovelace day [16th Oct]? There's a lot going on!
If there's not a list yet, maybe folks can just reply to the mailing
list letting others know about their events and we can try to put a
list together.
best,
Phoebe
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Any Bay Area folks want to present something Wikipedia-related???
Feel free to pass this along to anyone who might be interested.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This profession requires continued learning. Let's share ours!
You are invited to the first Library Skillshare –Friday, October 12, 2012, 6:30pmat the Alameda Free Library,1550 Oak Street,Alameda,CA.
Cometeach- and/orlearnsomething!
All ages/levels welcome. Free admission. Refreshments provided.
Anyone who wants to can present. Post things that you would like to teach or arehoping someone else might cover herehttp://bit.ly/TC5Mon.
If you would like to help with this or other Library Skillshares that would be great!
Please contact Lani atyelmo2000(a)yahoo.com
The Princeton University Archives is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on the theme of Princeton Athletics.
WHO: Interested University community members (students, graduate students, professors, staff, and community). No prior Wikipedia experience is needed. Limited to 15 participants; please RSVP before Monday, 15 October 2012.
WHAT: Creating and expanding existing Wikipedia pages about the history of Princeton University Athletics at Princeton. Participants will set up individual Wikipedia accounts, learn how to write an article, and then use University Archives resources to write and edit articles.
WHEN: Friday, 19 October 2012, 12:30 P.M.-4:15 P.M. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
WHERE: Weiss Lounge, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library (next to Sherrerd Hall and across from the Friend Center).
WHY: To increase the number of pages on Wikipedia about the history of Princeton University related matters focusing on football and other athletics.
OTHER: Please bring your laptop since you will be asked to create a Wikipedia account (if you do not already have one; you are not required to have an account before participating).
IMPORTANT: Please RSVP by emailing mudd(a)princeton.edu<mailto:mudd@princeton.edu> AND adding your name to the list on the Wikipedia Meetup page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Princeton_University_Edit-a-t…> before Monday, 15 October 2012 because space is limited.
Christa Cleeton
Special Collections Assistant/Social Media Manager
Mudd Manuscript Library
Princeton University
609-258-6345
Twitter: @MuddLibrary<http://www.twitter.com/muddlibrary>
Facebook Mudd Library<http://facebook.com/muddlibrary>
Blogs:
The Reel Mudd<http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/>
Mudd Library Blog<http://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/>
Open Access Week is upon us,
I have been brainstorming about how to do something large for Wikipedia
Loves Libraries this Open Access Week. One such idea that I've discussed
with Creative Commons is to construct a mini-course on P2PU (peer to
peer University).
For an example of such a pre-existing short form course see:
https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/webmaking-101/
The way I imagined it would be a 4 parter:
1. Learning about talk, history, and users.
2. Learning about wikitext, citations, infoboxes,
3. Challenge, add citations and infoboxes,
4. Extra challenge, upload to wikisource.
Is there anybody else that would want to help construct or promote this
course for the end of October? Or have any input on using the site,
format or content?
Best,
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023